Workingmen are at the foundation of society.
SAMUEL GOMPERS
SAMUEL GOMPERS
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Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment.
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin.
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers No race of barbarians ever existed yet offered up children for money
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers Show me the country that has no strikes and I’ll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers No human being is unimportant. My inspiration comes in opening opportunities that all alike may be free to live life to the fullest.
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man’s prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labor Dayis devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race, or nation.
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers Do I believe in arbitration? I do. But not in arbitration between the lion and the lamb, in which the lamb is in the morning found inside the lion
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests.
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers… It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service.
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers [The labor movement is] a movement of the working people, for the working people, by the working people, governed by ourselves, with its policies determined by ourselves.
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers To be free, the workers must have choice. To have choice they must retain in their own hands the right to determine under what conditions they will work.
Samuel GompersSamuel Gompers The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.
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